“Quick, what’s he wearing?”
Fraggle Rock #3
Star Comics (August, 1985)
“The Monster That Could Be Anything”
ADAPTATION: Stan Kay
ARTIST: Marie Severin
LETTERER: Grace Kemer
EDITOR: Sid Jacobson
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As a creative myself, and a fan of worldbuilding…that was a total waste of time. Just when you think the movie’s done failing, this info comes out. I also wonder how much of this info and music Cirque Du Solei had for their Avatar tribute performance, Toruk: The First Flight. I can’t imagine they would miss the opportunity to have music that special.
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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
Things were not going well for our heroes in our last chapter. The investigators are down the power is down, the records are down, but at least the fire is down.
We’re not quite at the last third of the book. We still don’t know if the fire was intentional but if so we know our murderer doesn’t care who dies. Or maybe they do. Maybe this is a crazy person demanding death. We have suspects but given how little time has been devoted to the investigation there’s still room for an extra party to be involved, even with the clue I found by accident when going back a few chapters.
How far will the killer go, and why? There’s still so little we don’t know and I suspect the investigation may still not move forward this chapter with everyone needing to recover. The only way to find out is to check the next chapter and see what happens.
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One of these days I will find out what all these people keep running after on these covers.
Freex #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
“Freaked”
WRITER: Gerald Jones
PENCILER: Ben Herrera
INKER: Mike Christian
COLORIST: Paul Mounts
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
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I think I mentioned the liver biopsy I had to go through this week, but I was able to get content on time this week. However, I wasn’t able to come up with a Jake & Leon this week and for this week’s Clutter Reports I had to watch someone going over why people enjoy decluttering videos and apply it to my site. It’s not been as productive as I would like but it’s better than I expected.
What’s happening this week? Outside of the Free Comic Inside I was expecting to have last week and the latest chapter of Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders, I don’t know. I’m still waiting for the test results, and to see what new spores of madness the storytelling industry has forced upon the universe this week, and I’m STILL trying to get into a work schedule without all these @#%#$%^#$ interruptions. So I’m not sure what else is coming but hopefully it will be worth your time and readership. Have a great week, everyone!
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I’m going to do something rather different for Saturday Night Showcase on the heals of the Transformers One trailer (which I reviewed) and the upcoming airing of the first war episodes of the original The Transformers in theaters, which I’m hoping is why those episodes aren’t currently on their official Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel at the moment and will be returned after. Otherwise I need to make alternate plans for my previous SNS posting of the original miniseries. I’ll know after the theatrical airings are done in May.
Season one didn’t give us a whole lot about the history of the “Great War” as depicted in the show’s continuity. It had to set up the series and introduce the first few batches of toys characters first. Season two and part of season three is when we finally started learning about the war between Autobots in Decepticons. Tonight I’m going to show you those episodes, but there’s a catch. Some of them were part of a multipart episode. One is a part two of two while another is part three of five, and yet I’ll not show every part because that would be too many videos on one page. The rest are done in one stories, though.
Instead my focus is on the parts of the episode that just go into the history of the war, when it started, how long it went on, and the history of Cybertron prior to the war, with looks at their very origins. You’ll be getting the history the same way we did as kids back in the day, but not necessarily the stories surround it because that’s not the point of tonight’s showcase. Don’t worry, it’s really easy to find this show on many streaming services, though it does mean spoilers for at least one episode that gets the finale posted here. Then again, if you’re even here I’m not sure why you’d be here if you haven’t seen the whole series. Much of this was also covered in the Transformers: The Basics episode on the Great War in various continuities, and I will not be including season three’s segments discussion Transformer history. This is how the viewers learned it in the way we learned it originally. There’s only (insert number here) episode to go through but we learn quite a bit. Let’s begin:
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